Love Should Never Be This Dangerous.

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Back to school.

I've been at home with Miles since the accident.

He can come back to school next week because his head is healed.

When I arrive at school, everyone just stares at me and I uncomfortably just shift past everyone.

I saw Owen talking to a guy that looks about 20 or something and they kept looking over at me.

Toby has been giving me this weird vibe since I got back to school.

I try to talk to him, but he just gives me a one-word answer.

Right now I'm in Art class and we're painting a sunset with all different colours.

I'm using green for the sun, red for the sea, and purple for the sky.

It looks a bit weird, but that's the point.

I've just finished the sun and sky so I'm ready to start the Red Sea.

I just realised that I don't have any red paint but the guy next to me does.

"Hey. Do you mind if I borrow that red paint?" I ask him pointing to the red paint bottle.

The guys looks me and just rolls his eyes and continues his painting.

Well damn. Never mind.

I turn to the other guy next to me and he held out his red paint bottle.

"Thanks," I say taking it and smiling.

"Don't mind Jason. He's just rude." He says.

"Yeah. I can tell." I say putting some red paint on my paint brush.

"I'm Ryan." He says smiling.

"I'm Alice," I say.

I remember one of the guys that helped Miles said that they thought it was a guy named Ryan.

I wonder if I was him. But he doesn't look like he'd hurt anyone. He's just got that face.

"Your brother got hurt right?" He asks pointing a paint brush with black paint on it.

"Um. Yeah." I awkwardly say.

"Is he okay?" He asks.

"Yeah. He's fine."

"When is he coming back?"

"Next week probably," I say putting white paint in the red cause I don't want such a pigment colour.

"Are YOU okay?" He says emphasising the word 'you'.

"Yeah. I'm fine. Why wouldn't I be?" I ask looking over at him.

"Well you haven't been at school in a week and I mean your brother got hurt. It's gotta be overwhelming." He says.

No one has even asked me if I'M okay.

No one has cared.

"Yeah. It is. But I'm handling it." I say smiling.

The bell rings and I quickly finish my red sea.

Ryan packs up his stuff and waits for me.

I quickly pack up mine with a little help from Ryan and then we walk out the class together.

He walks me to my locker and we talk for a while since we both have a free period.

"So, I know this awesome place just down the street called 'Best Burgers' and well, they have the best burgers. Wanna come with me?" He asks.

"Um. Are we allowed to leave school?" I ask.

"Yeah! As long as we tell a teacher, the school is fine with it." He says a little too quickly like he knew I was gonna ask that.

"Okay," I say shutting my locker door.

We tell our English teacher that we're leaving cause he was the first person we could find and he's fine with it.

Ryan is 18 already so he already has a car.

He opens the car door for me and I get in.

Then he gets in and starts the car.

He drives for about 5 minutes and then pulls up to the restaurant.

I hope it doesn't look too weird that two kids coming into a restaurant at 12:30pm during school hours with school uniforms on.

Ryan gets us a booth in the back but we can still oversee the whole restaurant.

We both order the 'Ultimate Burger' with extra fries.

"So how are you liking London so far?" Ryan asks taking a sip of his chocolate milkshake.

"It's alright. It's kind of rainy and miserable." I say taking a sip of my strawberry milkshake.

"Yeah, true." He chuckles.

Ryan looks behind me and then stiffens.

I frown and then look behind me.

Owen is standing there with the same guy that I saw earlier.

They both take a seat at the table next to ours.

"So, Alice. What do you like doing?" Ryan says looking back at me.

I can see from the corner of my eye Owen looking at us.

"I like to watch the Kardashians," I say taking another sip from my milkshake.

"Cool." He says.

"What about you?" I ask.

"I like to hang out with... friends." He says pausing after 'with'.

The guy Owen is with chuckles.

Ryan's eyes shoot to him.

His face hardens and his jaw clenches.

He doesn't have that harmless face anymore.

"You got a problem, Asher?" Ryan asks in a hard voice.

Asher looks at him and says, "Yeah. You."

Oh shit.

I can feel a fight coming on.

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